Descriptive Representation During Reconstruction: Evidence from Freedom’s Lawmakers in the Late 19th Century

• In Event: Examining Descriptive Representation

Brief Overview

In this paper, we show how descriptive representation stemmed the tide of disfranchisement that occurred throughout the South as Redeemers wrested political power from democratic governments in the late 19th century.

Authors

• Michael N/A Greenberger, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Jasmine Smith, Duke University